Otto Meltzer

Otto Meltzer (1907-1941) was a Wehrmacht tank commander during World War II.

Biography
Otto Meltzer was born in Neubrandenburg, Germany in 1907, and he enlisted in the Wehrmacht during the 1930s, serving in the armored corps. In 1939, he was given command of a panzer during the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, and his panzer was destroyed by the Polish Army at the Battle of the Bzura. Meltzer and Herbert Koch survived the tank's destruction, and they were rescued by the Krankenwagen Leipzig, which took them behind the German lines. Meltzer would be assigned to another tank and rotated back into service, and he was killed during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.